I guess I've figured out that the captions do transfer to the computer, they just don't transfer back to the Tivo. I've seen various threads on this, but no solution. Has anyone come up with one? thanks

I guess I've figured out that the captions do transfer to the computer, they just don't transfer back to the Tivo. I've seen various threads on this, but no solution. Has anyone come up with one? thanks

Yes, I mentioned that in my 1st post of this thread. It is possible to get captions when transferring back. The key is you have to transfer back to TiVo using mpeg2 TS container, which you can do by setting up recent version of pyTivo with ts=on setting in [server] section of pyTivo.conf and also making sure you point pyTivo to a recent version of ffmpeg. That way when you transfer to TiVo pyTivo will remux to TS container if necessary and captions will come out fine.